5 Things: Mets Advance to World Series

By Andrew Kahn
The New York Mets are headed to their first World Series since the 2000 Subway Series. They await either the Kansas City Royals, which lost in the Series just last year, or the Toronto Blue Jays, which last went in 1993 and won on Joe Carter’s famous home run.
Daniel Broom
The Mets swept the Cubs thanks in large part to Daniel Murphy, who had to be one of the more obvious choices in NLCS MVP voting history. In Wednesday’s clincher, he set a playoff record by homering i